Firm and Provider News

Connell Foley has announced that Brad Shalit, an associate with the firm for seven years, has been named as Partner.
Mr. Shalit focuses his practice area in taxation and corporate law including tax planning for individuals, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and estates and trusts, with a particular emphasis on estate planning and asset protection...

Eisner LLP, a middle-market accounting and business advisory services firm, has announced that Eric Altstadter has joined the firm as an audit partner.
Mr. Altstadter brings to the firm more than 25 years of experience working with public companies and privately held businesses. He has helped numerous companies through the complex financial reporting and...

Goodwin Procter LLP has announced the addition of Stephen G. Mills and Janet Andolina as partners to the firm's Tax Practice in New York. Both attorneys have significant expertise with regard to tax considerations in corporate transactions.
Mr. Mills and Ms. Andolina will be key members of Goodwin Procter's Tax Practice, allowing the firm to further...

Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, acting as lead counsel, recently gained approval from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware of the First Amended Joint Plan of Reorganization filed by SMART Papers, LLC and certain of its affiliates.
Robert Brady, Joseph Malfitano, Sean Greecher and Ian Frederick handled the matter for...

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates) has announced the launch of its first continental European office in Berlin, Germany. The office will be staffed by partners who formerly practiced in the Berlin office of Taylor Wessing, an international firm of British and German origins.
The expansion into Germany follows the landmark...

Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., will shorten its name and launch a new logo to coincide with the firm's move to One Gateway Center in February 2007. The firm's new name will be Gibbons P.C. and the new Gibbons logo will be used on all firm materials, including on a sign that will join the Newark skyline upon the firm's move to its...

Michael Vincent Hodge, director of the District's Revenue Bond Program and chief operating officer for Planning and Economic Development with the Office of the Deputy Mayor, is joining the law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP as a partner in its Washington, DC office.
Mr. Hodge played a pivotal role in many of the District's economic...

Day, Berry & Howard LLP and Pitney Hardin LLP last month completed the merger of the two firms into Day Pitney LLP.
This merger creates a firm of approximately 400 attorneys, operating in nine offices located in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Boston, and Washington, DC.

The American Bar Association Litigation Section's Committee on Corporate Counsel this month will present its annual CLE Seminar.
The conference will take place Thursday-Sunday, February 15-18 at the Amelia Island Plantation, Amelia Island, FL. Sessions will run from 5 to 6:15 p.m. on the first day, 8 to 10:30 a.m. on the second, 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. on the...

Partners or senior attorneys depart from every law office at one time or another, yet most firms don't plan for this eventuality. In a recent survey, 53 percent of attorneys polled said their law firm or legal department does not have a formal succession plan in place for key positions.

The international law firm Gianni, Origoni, Grippo & Partners has announced the opening of its new office in Brussels.
Mario Todino, former official of the Directorate General for Competition of the EC Commission, is the newly hired resident lawyer for the Brussels office. He will lead a team of four lawyers.
The Brussels office will provide the firm'...

The Somerville law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. has announced that Fernando M. Pinguelo and Haekyoung Suh have been named members of the firm.
Mr. Pinguelo practices in the areas of civil litigation and appellate law, specializing in complex commercial litigation and labor & employment matters in both federal and state courts. He...

Fred F. Fielding, a name partner at the Washington, DC law firm Wiley Rein & Fielding, has been named by President Bush to serve as Counsel to the President, succeeding outgoing counsel Harriet Miers. Mr. Fielding, who joined the firm in 1986 following his tenure as White House Counsel to President Reagan, will assume the post on February 1.

Stradley Ronon partner and ADR Practice Group Chair Bennett G. Picker was recently reappointed as Mediator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for a four-year term (2007-2010).
Headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, CAS is recognized as the exclusive agency for the resolution of sports-related disputes by 31 international sports federations,...

Mark C. Levy, a partner in the Litigation Department and chair of the firm's Life Sciences Litigation and Risk Containment Practice Group, has been appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Law Journal.
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Christopher P. Stief, a partner in the Litigation Department and co-chair of the Employee Defection & Recruitment Practice...

The Hon. Sandra Schultz Newman, the first woman ever elected to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, has been tapped to head the rapidly growing nationwide Appellate practice at Cozen O'Connor. The appointment was effective January 1.
Justice Newman has served since 1995 on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Prior to that, Justice Newman was a judge for the...

RPost has announced that that IBM has selected RPost's REGISTERED E-MAIL solution among the top three Best Messaging and Collaboration Solutions available world-wide for 2007.
IBM conducts an annual world-wide search for the IBM/Lotus compatible solutions that set the standard for business excellence, ingenuity, and customer satisfaction. IBM received 370...

Continuing its aggressive expansion in the intellectual property arena, King & Spalding has announced that Richard Pettus, a patent litigator with significant experience in the pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer products sectors, has joined the firm's New York office as a partner in its intellectual property practice group.
Mr. Pettus is the...

Cheryl D. Orr and Heather M. Sager last month joined Drinker Buddle & Reath LLP as partners in the firm's HR Law Practice group. Both lawyers come to Drinker Biddle from Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger LLP, a boutique California labor and employment firm, where Ms. Orr served as managing partner of its San Francisco office and Ms. Sager was a...